Jessie Roberts, an impulsive and passionate American, finds herself standing at the rail on Ascot’s opening day among the English aristocracy. Now in her fifties, after the Great War, life has changed and she has promised to fulfil her late husband’s desire to own a racehorse. Emotional and outspoken, preferring trousers and cowboy boots, she goes at life in her own way, often finding unwanted troubles.

Jessie ‘s best friend, Jake Daniels, a prosperous black man, has loved her for years, always supporting and protecting her on her escapades, no matter how frustrated he becomes with her antics or with society keeping them apart.  Together they travel to California in search of her abducted horse. When Jake fails to join Jessie, as she visits old friends, her suppressed love for him surfaces.  Her only concern now is to find Jake and build a life together.  She realizes sometimes promises can’t always be kept.  But will circumstances and old desires permit them to be together?